Posted
by
kdawson
on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @01:18PM
from the trustworthy-loyal-helpful-friendly dept.

Lucas123 writes "The Boy Scouts of America are looking to the open-source community for help in building software to use for fundraisers, special events, and other functions, for their more than 121,000 local scout troops. Some open source advocates, who are former Boy Scouts, support the idea, despite a few reservations. According to the article, there are no plans for a scout merit badge in open source — but there has been a merit badge in computers since 1967, 'and it is possible that if the program is successful, it could eventually be used by IT-savvy scouts themselves.'"

Attention American mods: that was a British joke, albeit a poor one. In the British Isles, a "fag" is a cigarette. Mr. AC, your joke was in poor taste, as over here in the colonies "fag" is a pejoritive term for "homosexual".

Well, as the proverbial card-carrying ACLU member, I certainly support the BSA getting that berth — at a market rate. I'd say the same for any group, including that perennial ACLU client, the American Nazi party.

Oops, I just compared the BSA to the Nazis, didn't I? Godwin strikes again!